Faith Fellowship Assembly of God has opened The Clothing & Prayer Closet on West Depot Street. According to Rev. Jim Booth, the pastor, it’s goal is to help families who have nothing and have no local support system to help them. The Closet will stock clothing, shoes, household goods, furniture and toys. There will be no charge for anything. Everything will be given away.

Friday will be the last day for the Rwandan Hugs Thrift Store, located on North Bridge Street.

“We are closing June 24,” Nancy Strachan, president of Rwandan Hugs, said.
Hugs, which has been around since 2007, has operated the thrift store since August, 2013. The organization had a booth in the building for a year-and-a-half before that.

Dr. Bob Shelton, who will be speaking at Grace Memorial Baptist Church’s missions conference, had the opportunity of a lifetime in 1952.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and his forces had been driven from mainland China by Mao Tse-tung’s Communist forces in 1949. Dr. Shelton said Chaing had brought three million people with him, 500,000 of whom were his soldiers.

David Hinsen, Bedford Church of God’s senior pastor, believes it’s important for the church to “get outside our four walls.”

“If all we do is have a couple of services and go home, we’ve failed,” he said. “We need to be a part of the community.”
That’s the impetus behind the church’s decision to open a food pantry on May 1. According to the Rev. Hinsen, the idea came from J. R. Cook, the youth pastor.